The Edelstein Effect in the Presence of Impurity Spin-Orbit Scattering |
| A. Maleki Sheikhabadia, R. Raimondi a and Ka Shen b
aDipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Roma, Italy bKavli Institute of NanoScience, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands |
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| In this paper we study the current-induced spin polarization in a two-dimensional electron gas, known also as the Edelstein effect. Compared to previous treatments, we consider both the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction as well as the spin-orbit interaction from impurity scattering. In evaluating the Kubo formula for the spin polarization response to an applied electric field, we explicitly take into account the side-jump and skew-scattering effects. We show that the inclusion of side-jump and skew-scattering modifies the expression of the current-induced spin polarization. |
DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.132.135 PACS numbers: 72.25.-b, 71.70.Ej, 72.20.Dp, 85.75.-d |